Muslima

#6,479 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Muslim

Muslima has been given to 229 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #6,479 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Muslima, 2025

1 in 184,000

Muslima over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Muslima: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Muslim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Muslima means

Muslima is a feminine form of Muslim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Muslima → Muslim → مسلم. The family’s meaning is “to surrender, to become a Muslim”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements ʔaslama.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Muslim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 229 girls were recorded with the name Muslima between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,528 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,717 in 2020 to #6,479 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,563 in 2015 to #6,479 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Muslima?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 184,000; 18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 89,300; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #6,479; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 127,662 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Muslima sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Muslima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Muslimas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Muslima was born before 2021 — so the typical Muslima is around 4 today.

Median birth year: 2021; About 4 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 62.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 229; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 62.4% of all recorded uses (143).

Is Muslima rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −1,230; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,762; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +5,084; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 2.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 58.1%; Peak was 2023 (31)
Years since peak: 2; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,528; 2023

Where Muslima is used

Across 1910–2025, Muslima was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 184,930 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 100,000
2Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Muslima has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Muslima around the world

Where Muslima ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1996–2025
#5,927
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Muslima by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #6,479
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,762
Best rank ever: #4,528; 2023
Peak year: 2023; 31 that year
First recorded: 2008
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 229
Count in 2025: 18

Names similar to Muslima

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Muslima

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Annabell Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Leonor Keren Kendyl Anabel

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Kale Aaden Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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